ivory:

He wasn’t asking you… 🙂

Little Froggie:

Two minutes isn’t long enough to assume people aren’t responding!

Anyway, a while back, I made a list of musicians in this thread: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/random-facts-1

live right – Piano

Patur Aval Assur – Unknown, but not a mouth instrument. He feels that specifying his instrument would be giving away “too much personal information.”

cozimjewish – Piano

possibly RebYidd23 – Unknown

Little Froggie – Keyboard and violin

Writersoul – Flute

HaLeiVi – Keyboard and harmonica

Gamanit – Keyboard

Torah613Torah – Piano [“poorly,” as of 10 months ago]

LAB [lev aryeh boy] – Keyboard?

Personally, I play Guitar Hero/Frets On Fire X/Phase Shift.

Looks like what I thought was the “old” Coffee Room is still alive, at least in the threads on “heavy” subjects that I prefer not to read… I’ve seen two accusations of Joseph in the last few days, too…

I’m sorry, LVT. First I thought maybe you really knew what your name meant before you chose it, but you forgot what your name was, but then I saw from here ( http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/good-usernames#post-540794 ) that it was only because you believe that a username is about something that the user isn’t that you didn’t get SDD’s joke about “your 35 colleagues,” not because you didn’t know what your name meant or forgot it.

[Not everything I have to say, but I can’t let PAA get this first!]

Surprisingly enough, Eftach would hurt a fly:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/its-okay-to-care-about-animals#post-541139

(We’ll have to leave trying not to kill things to Writersoul:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ever-seen-a-forest-animal-die-of-old-age#post-537143 )

Eftach’s a real heart-warmer, though – I read the post you linked to, Patur. And then there are her profiles of other users.

eftachbchinor:

Can you do more people? Here’s a good place for it:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/lets-all-make-non-nasty-comments-about-other-posters

(P.S. No, this doesn’t mean I’m working on a response to the “forest animal” thread… You don’t want to know how much CR-related material I have both on my computer and on papers. It’s all too much…)

EDIT:

PAA:

Here’s Eftach’s first mouth-hanging-open CR moment (I assume) so you can better see their evolution:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/cant-escape-who-you-are#post-540745

DaasYochid:

“Who’s on First” – Abbott and Costello!

The question I was quoting from you was meant to be in blockquote but it didn’t work. Something’s gone wrong. Anyway, there wasn’t meant to be a question for in the post – but you didn’t explain.

DaasYochid:

popa_bar_abba: I saw on a diff web site that when you eat a lollipop, you are really just eating your own flavored saliva.

DaasYochid: Why was a diff web site talking about me?

What?

[Not all I have to say here]

cozimjewish:

She had already read the post you’re talking about* before posting that, and I can prove it – she left a comment**.

(A one-day difference won’t prove it for posterity, though…)

*

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/cant-escape-who-you-are#post-540656

**

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/cant-escape-who-you-are#post-540745

“You’re NUTS”

(eftachbchinor)

That one’s difficult to interpret as an insult in context*, especially the way kids talk these days…

What’s wrong, Patur? Doesn’t anyone hate you anymore?

* http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/creative-writing-cr-users-in-real-life#post-541135

We can now add Mod-79 to the list of recently-active (and recently-added) mods.

Let’s go deeper on Little Froggie’s question: If a post is rejected (or deleted after being approved), are the mods still able to access it?

Let’s go deeper on Mod-79’s answer: How does that work? Is there an absolute limit that must not be reached over the course of one’s career, or is it a certain number within a certain time period?

Gavra_at_work:

I’m not really involved in this, but…

Of course it doesn't, and that is not what I said. Straw Man.

Joe, (AKA "Catch Me" we did) I'm not going to bother with you.

That’s two strikes against you.

Please refrain from ad hominem arguments.

Thank you, Eftach, that’s very sweet of you! Keep reading, though…

(Also, I don’t know of any “report card comments” location belonging to me – there was a public one, but it’s been dedicated to Patur Aval Assur for a while now.)

I have created a dilemma:

The comments I previously put on my profile were posted by people

who were unaware that their words might be used in that context, i.e. meisi’ach l’fi tumo (for those familiar with some halachos about testimony). Eftachbchinor’s post (above this one), however, was created with the intention that it be used in that way.

Does this render it less authentic in a way? Can or should I use it? (According to who or what, anyway?)

I’m also not sure I want to have as many as 3 quotes from a single user – this might make such users seem like unreliable sources of opinion about me. In fact, what if they are? Can or should I use quotes from such users?

It only gets worse. Now that I have called attention to my profile, can anyone be considered meisi’ach l’fi tumo? From what I’ve seen, it appears that the majority of users read the majority threads.

Let’s examine the context the quotes would be put in:

“here are some nice things people have said about me:”

It doesn’t seem deceptive to add anything whatsoever, unless

I can surmise that the poster didn’t mean what they were saying, and I think it’s self-understood that nice things aren’t necessarily objective.

I’m just taking all this too seriously, like I do the entire Coffee Room. 🙂

So I’ll just put Eftach’s quote up with a note that it was on the record, and I ask anyone who remembers, when saying something nice about me, that what they say might be quoted later, to note that they are speaking on the record. As for the too-many-quotes-from-one-source, who says it has to be convincing? (I may consider a cap later.)

For more clarity, that should’ve been:

No one laughed – did anyone get it?

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/question-of-names#post-537897 (Note the previous post.)

SIDI™:

You’re Googling the contents of my profile page, if you want to know

where those posts are.

Here’s another profile with a little work done:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/profile/screwdriverdelight

PAA:

You didn’t provide definitions. So, what exactly is the meaning of “triplical?” [It had better not be on a Wiktionary page for “triple,” “tripartite,” “threefold,” or “triplicate” {maybe I shouldn’t mention them… but whatever].)

“Ingraining” would seem to do for whatever “ingraination” means.

“Sarcasticon” is a nice, fun neologism, and its meaning,

“an emoticon indicating sarcasm,” is readily discernible. 🙂

(It’s also, randomly enough, the the name of a short-lived Australian black metal band [2002-3], a Twitter account with a mere 75 posts [2009-2013] , and a blog with a grand total of 10 posts [2007, 2009-10], but I don’t think any of them intended your meaning.)

Because I wasn’t aware of them, here are some sarcasticons I found:

:s (or, according to Wikipedia, this is for “grimface” [added later, PAA!])

:s)

;s

[Given the previous 3, presumably ;s) ]

:-7 [Tongue-in-cheek]

(^o) [A raised eyebrow]

“conversified”

I do think that it is true that one side can honestly perceive the other side as being an economic burden and this can not necessarily be conversified.

What would have been the problem with “the converse is not necessarily so?”

>>>>

The potential sarcasm was that you need an excuse to justify reading Halachic Man

So, Writersoul downplays her achievement – reading Halakhic Man – and you respond, sarcastically, that her statement is not a valid excuse – the true, opposite meaning being that her statement does not in fact lessen her achievement – is this correct?

but I left it up to the reader's interpretation.

What was the potential non-sarcastic meaning? You had just given a compliment for the achievement, making it difficult to interpret as sincere a statement about needing an excuse for it.

Also my line contained a reference to a different thread, which you might not have gotten.

Or maybe I just didn’t see that thread. Contrary to what somebody seems to believe, I am not a walking index of the CR. But given how short that line is, and the hint…

That’s right, I didn’t read much of that thread, and so I didn’t see your conversation, or this:

In general I troll around in the background when it comes to CR but for this question I specifically registered to post a reply.

I think you might accept the fact that I didn’t say anything about that as proof that I didn’t see it at the time. Something tells me Dee50 hadn’t been in the background for too long… 🙂

Let’s try your ability to get references:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/lollipops#post-540672

>>>>

By the way, there are now five threads with my name in the title,[...] three of which were changed by the Moderator(s)

Yes, I’d noticed the trend.

P.S. This took forever to research and write – hope you enjoy it.

Fishing for compliments apparently works. 🙂

Another interesting profile page is RebYidd23’s:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/profile/rebyidd23

But most people don’t bother with this kind of thing – even

Popa’s is just this:

Location

Possibly Chicago

Occupation

Troublemaker

Interests

Trolling. Making fun of other trolls.

SIDI™:

???? ??? ??????.

(If anyone’s wondering, it’s all Joseph’s fault:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/sdn%ca%9e-i%c7%9d%c9%b9p#post-316937 )

Sam Klein, were you answering my question to Sam2?

Lamud vov tzadik:

Sdd could you explain yourself please

SDD:

None of your 35 colleagues want to?

Maybe you should’ve found out what your username meant before choosing it! Alright, I’ll tell you: Chazal tell us that there are

36 (lamed vov) hidden tzaddikim whose merit sustains the world, or something like that (possibly 36 in Eretz Yisrael and 36 in the rest of the world?).

Your username “identifies” you as one of the 36 – SDD was saying that perhaps one of the other 35 could be your chavrusa.

Little Froggie:

Your Gratuitous Russian does not appear to be part of a coherent statement.

cozimjewish:

I would love to know what Sheep without a Spleen was thinking

showjoe

and “notasheep”

Heh. Notasheep actually used to have the subtitle “with a spleen.”

(SWaS predates Notasheep by several years.)

eftachbchinor:

I rather randomly explained my username here:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/mazel-tov/page/24#post-534539

I’ll reprint it now, though:

My name was created in tribute to Jon Schweppe’s online handle and the comics character Fantomex (this was a loooooong time ago).

I think it serves me well, and I enjoy both the American and British meanings of “random.”

NEW: Schweppe’s handle was/is “Rand0m,” and I was reading him on Pokemon, and Fantomex is from Marvel Comics’ X-Men franchise.

As for my subtitle, it’ll probably be a while ’til I get around to

expressing it as eloquently as I’d like, but anyone who wants to can Google away. I’ll even help out with some “fanclub bonus content” – the text of Randomex’s subtitle change request!

[thread title? I don’t remember:] mod read only

Subtitle request

While “Memberex” was a nice gesture, it’s a little understated.

May I request the following subtitle (I do love duality…) ?

Emerald Sword in one hand, Occam’s Razor in the other.

They were nice enough to oblige immediately.

Little Froggie (and cozimjewish, and anyone who doesn’t know math):

“Minus zero” is zero. (0-0 = 0)